Kitchen, Bathroom and Addition Contractors in Hillsdale County, Michigan
Strouss Construction remodels kitchens and bathrooms, builds room additions and takes on whole home renovations across Hillsdale County, Michigan, including Hillsdale, Jonesville and Litchfield. The family has been building since 1949, the company is in its fourth generation, and our base in Concord is about twenty minutes from Litchfield and forty minutes from Hillsdale down M-99, so getting a crew and material here is routine. A project runs from the first walk of the house through scope and design, structural framing, mechanicals, drywall, trim and finish work, with a written scope and a number agreed before demo starts. A lot of the housing in Hillsdale and Jonesville dates to the eighteen hundreds, with balloon framing, plaster over lath and block or fieldstone basements, so opening a wall or tying an addition into the old roofline is where the real work is. Because we build houses as well as remodel them, that structural work stays with our own crew.
Kitchens and bathrooms in older houses
The kitchen is usually a layout problem before it is a finish problem, and in a house from the eighteen hundreds the layout is tangled up with plaster walls, old framing and plumbing stacks that were added long after the house was built. Bathrooms are the smallest rooms and the most trade dense. Both reward planning the order of work before anything is opened up, and that is how we run them.
Additions near downtown and the college
The older end of Hillsdale is tall farmhouse styles, Queen Annes and small Greek Revivals on narrow lots with mature trees. An addition there is as much about access and matching as framing. We plan how a truck gets to the back of the property, how the new foundation meets a fieldstone one, and how the roofline and porch read from the sidewalk so the new part does not look bolted on.
How permits work in Hillsdale County
This is different from Jackson County and it catches people out. The building permit comes through the Hillsdale County building inspection office rather than the township. Zoning runs through the city inside Hillsdale or the township on acreage, and if the work touches the well or the septic, that approval comes through the tri county health agency. We tell you which offices your project answers to and carry the paperwork ourselves.
Living in the house while the work is on
Dust travels, so that is the first thing to deal with. The work area gets sealed off from the rest of the house, we plan which rooms are touched when so you can live around it, and we clean up after ourselves. We work in occupied homes all the time.
What Customers Say
Carol Thompson
The Strouss family was excellent to work with. The quality of work was excellent. We did a complete remodel of our cottage and their attention to detail is evident in the finished product. Strouss Builders have been doing this a long time and have all things covered.
A. O.
Thank you to the wonderful team at Strouss Construction. Your dedication to beautiful work and attention to detail certainly shows in my home. Thank you for going above and beyond my expectations. I highly recommend Strouss Construction!
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